TADS
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Description
TADS (Text Adventure Development System) is an Interactive Fiction development system by Michael J. Roberts. Plain text source code files are created using the TADS programming language, and then compiled into a system-independent game file.
The term "TADS", unqualified, generally refers to TADS version 2 and below. TADS 3 is the currently developed version of the platform, and it is incompatible with previous versions. See the TADS 3 page for more information on this version.
Compilers
- TADS 2 Author's Kit (Windows, freeware, website: the official TADS 2 implementation
- FrobTADS (Unix-like, freeware, website: ports of TADS 2 and TADS 3 compilers for Unix systems (including Mac OS X)
Interpreters
- HTML TADS Interpreter (Windows, freeware, website): the official TADS 2 and TADS 3 interpreter with full multimedia support
- Jetty (cross-platform, open source, website: a TADS 2 interpreter written in Java
- QTads (cross-platform, open source, website): a TADS 2 and TADS 3 interpreter with full multimedia support
Other Tools
Sample Files
Source Code
- ditchday.zip: Ditch Day Drifter, by Michael J. Roberts. Source code and compiled .gam file included.
- zeb3src.zip: Uncle Zebulon's Will, by Magnus Olsson. Full source code.
Compiled Games
- 1893Demo.gam: 1893: A World's Fair Mystery (demo), by Peter Nepstad
- grip.gam: Losing Your Grip, by Stephen Grande
